I was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1948 and lived outside Wichita, Kansas until 1959. My Father changed positions with Boeing and took us on a journey living throughout the US which ended for me in Huntsville in 1964.

Linda and I met at S. R. Butler High School in
Huntsville, married in the fall after graduation.

Linda helped me work my way through classes at the
University of Alabama in Huntsville and graduation at UNA.

Linda
and I subscribe to the old adage that if you "give a man a fish; you
have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a
lifetime." - Author Unknown

We provided four years of college for
each of our three daughters. All three have gone beyond and
received additional degrees on their own.